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*The majority of foreign residents in Peru live in '''Lima, with other communities found in Cusco and Arequipa'''.<ref>"Immigration to Peru", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_Peru, accessed 29 May 2021.</ref> | *The majority of foreign residents in Peru live in '''Lima, with other communities found in Cusco and Arequipa'''.<ref>"Immigration to Peru", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_Peru, accessed 29 May 2021.</ref> | ||
===Emigration=== | ===Emigration=== | ||
The largest Peruvian communities are in the '''United States (see Peruvian Americans), Canada, Argentine, Chile, Venezuela, Europe (i.e. Spain, Italy and France), Japan and Australia.'''<ref>"List of diasporas", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_diasporas, accessed 28 May 2021.</ref> | *The largest Peruvian communities are in the '''United States (see Peruvian Americans), Canada, Argentine, Chile, Venezuela, Europe (i.e. Spain, Italy and France), Japan and Australia.'''<ref>"List of diasporas", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_diasporas, accessed 28 May 2021.</ref> | ||
*Most Peruvian Americans are of '''Amerindian or Mestizo ancestry''', but there are also those of European or African background, and a significant number may also have '''partial or full Chinese or Japanese heritage'''. | |||
*According to the U.S. Census Bureau, as of 2018, 684,345 U.S. residents identify themselves as being of Peruvian origin. Approximately 62% of Peruvian Americans were born in Peru, with a growing population of Peruvian Americans being born in the United States. | |||
*Peruvian Americans immigrated to the United States in four major waves. | |||
:*Small but significant waves of immigration occurred in '''San Francisco during the gold rush''' and the '''Metro Detroit area in the 1950s'''. | |||
:*Another wave of immigration occurred again early in the twentieth century, due largely to the burgeoning '''textile industry in New York and New Jersey'''. | |||
:*Beginning in the 1970s, another wave of Peruvians arrived in the United States, most of whom were '''fleeing Peru's militaristic government'''. | |||
*The 1980s and 1990s saw the most significant influx of Peruvians to U.S. shores, this time in response to the '''hyperinflation crisis''' that plagued the Peruvian economy, '''internal unrest in Peru by terrorist groups''', and an '''authoritarian government'''. | |||
*Immigrants often '''come from urban areas of Peru, especially Lima''', and the majority settle in the '''New York City metropolitan area—particularly in Paterson and Passaic in New Jersey and the New York City borough of Queens'''. Peruvian Americans are also clustered in the '''metropolitan areas of Miami, Florida; Los Angeles; Houston, Texas; Washington, D.C.; and Virginia.'''<ref>"Peruvian Americans," in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peruvian_Americans, accessed 28 May 2021.</ref> | |||
==For Further Reading== | ==For Further Reading== | ||